Posted on 08/29/2015 10:21:38 AM PDT by Steelfish
August 29, 2015 India Town Council Orders Two Girls Raped As Punishment For Brother's Elopement By Rick Moran India, the largest democratic country in the world, is on the cusp of becoming a modern economic juggernaut.
But in many ways, it's still mired in the past, as is demonstrated by this outrageous action taken by a town council.
Meenakshi Kuwari, 23, and her 15-year-old sister, have been forced to flee their home after villagers ordered that they should be stripped naked and paraded with their faces blackened before being raped to atone for their brothers crime.
The case is just the latest high-profile incident of rape being used as a punishment by unelected village leaders or councils in rural India.
Similar cases have shocked the nation and the countrys Supreme Court has ruled the council judgments illegal but the practice persists in remote areas.
The family home was ransacked by furious villagers after her brother fled with a woman from a superior caste.
A hastily-convened assembly of the all-male village council in the district of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, north of Delhi, then handed down the rape punishment.
The two sisters and their father have fled to Delhi and appealed to Indias Supreme Court for protection if they return to the village.
The womens father has also raised their plight with the national commissions for castes and human rights.
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How do you apply for the job “Official Town Rapist?”
Bj klinton just booked a flight to India.
The b*****ds who are trying to enforce this should have all their stuff removed without anesthetic, because they are obvious pederasts in the case of the 15 year old, in order to prevent this ‘rape’. This town elders or town thugs, more like it, are judge jury and executioners who probably haven’t gotten any in a long time.
I thought the caste system was abolished.
We have women in NYC who want to appear naked in front of our children. What’s their motivation? Gay Pride Parade anyone?
Would they rape the children if they could get away with it?
India: Still a third world country.
According to multiculturalism, this form of government response is just as valid as ours. Just pointing that out.
All cultures are equal. Anyone who doesn’t endorse rape is a racist.
Subhumans.
On a related note, that practice of sati used to be common in India.
Sati (Sanskrit: sati;, also spelled suttee) is an obsolete Indian funeral custom where a widow was expected to immolate herself on her husband’s pyre, or commit suicide in another fashion shortly after her husband’s death.
Say what you will about the British domination of India, they largely ended sati. One of the British generals in India in the mid-1800s was Sir Charles James Napier. One of his actions, that relates to this modern story, follows:
A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. As first recounted by his brother William, he replied:
“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
See my previous post regarding government response.
A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. As first recounted by his brother William, he replied:
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pyre. But my nation has also a custom: When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
Beat me by 4 minutes.
This is a village in America, right?
Progressivism has allowed the old tribal ways to flourish in place where under so called western rule mostly wiped out those types of practices.
Remember all cultures are equal none are better than others./S/
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